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Date read: March 17, 2021
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
“You may be faking the relationship, but you’re not faking the orgasms.”Thoughts on Rock Bottom Girl: Okay. Let's start with I really really really liked this book. The idea that the lens we see ourselves through is so very VERY different from the ways others see us and how sometimes a person has to reevaluate their goals instead of just blindly forging forward and trying to grab onto that thing they think they've always wanted...well, I liked it all. I liked Marley's slow turnaround into a person who began to see the ways she made a difference. I liked Jake's go-get-'em attitude. I liked that Marley puked on Jake's shoes in just the WORST case of timing ever for a meet-cute. HA. Good times.
Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn’t wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that Homecoming she ruined her senior year.
Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl banned from all future Culpepper High Homecomings keep the losing-est girls soccer team in school history from killing each other and prevent carpal tunnel in a bunch of phone-clutching gym class students?
Maybe with the help of Jake Weston, high school bad boy turned sexy good guy. When the school rumor mill sends Marley to the principal’s office to sign an ethics contract, the tattooed track coach, dog dad, and teacher of the year becomes her new fake boyfriend and alibi—for a price. The Deal: He’ll teach her how to coach if she teaches him how to be in a relationship.
Who knew a fake boyfriend could deliver such real orgasms? But it’s all temporary. The guy. The job. The team. There’s too much history. Rock bottom can’t turn into a foundation for happily ever after. Can it?
Warning: Story also includes a meet-puke, a bouffanted nemesis, a yard swan and donkey basketball, a teenage-orchestrated makeover, and a fake relationship that gets a little too real between the sheets.
So. Marley. She's not in a great place mentally when she's forced to move home with her parents. She feels like a failure in every way. She never wanted to come back to her hometown, but here she is. Living the dream in her teenage self's old bedroom. Trying to live down her Homecoming failure by staying out of the limelight. Taking the temporary teaching and coaching position at her old high school is just the cherry on top of the pooh sundae.
Finding out the boy who crushed her teenage heart is a fellow teacher in the whipped cream on top of that sundae.
On Jake's end, he sees Marley much differently than she sees herself. He sees a queen who managed to put the school mean girl in her place. And due to a set of circumstances, he's completely unaware of the aforementioned heart crushing. Which means he doesn't have all those pesky hang-ups Marley has about them being together.
A reluctant teacher, a glorious prank, a team of misfits, confronting the past, and figuring out that everyone's kind of messed up even when they seem like they have it all together. I freely admit I liked Marley and Jake together. So much.
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